Presidency & Executive Politics Conference

Arrival & Check-In

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Welcome Remarks

Brandice Canes-Wrone, Hoover Institution and Stanford University

Presidential Policymaking

John Dearborn, Vanderbilt University, “The Civil Rights Action is in the Executive Branch': Reconsidering the Rise of Nixon's Administrative Presidency"

Kyuwon Lee, University of Southern California, “Leveling the Playing Field: Bureaucratic Revolving Doors for the Marginalized”

Benjamin Noble, University of California, San Diego, "From the Briefing Room to Your Living Room: How the President Sets the Media's Agenda" (with David R. Miller, American University and Erin L. Rossiter, University of Notre Dame)

Jennifer Selin, Arizona State University (ASU) Law, "Overdrawn: Understanding a Reactive Appropriations Process" (with Justin Smith Chiago, Victoria Huang and Meghan Vaughn–ASU Law)

Chair/Discussant: Jon Rogowski, University of Chicago

Break

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Lightning Talks

Terri Bimes, University of California, Berkeley, “The Bid for Presidential Government: A comparison of FDR and Trump’s Second Terms” (with Casey Dominguez, University of San Diego)

Anne Joseph O'Connell, Stanford Law School, “Removals and Anti-Removals"

Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College, "Centralized Politicization: The Politics of Presidential Spending Revisited"

Graduate Student & Post-Doc Lightning Talks

Lukas Alexander, Washington University in St. Louis, "Mobilizing the Public Check: State Attorneys General in the Age of Executive Power"

Kevin Angell, University of Chicago, “Who Has the Power of The Purse? Presidential Influence Over Spending Through Budget Implementation"

Patrick Buhr, Vanderbilt University, "Presidential Leadership and Partisan Conflict in the U.S. Congress"

Seonkyung Pyo, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Trump’s Second Administration”
(with Andrew Reeves, Washington University in St. Louis and Jon C. Rogowski, University of Chicago)

Graduate Student & Post-Doc Poster Session

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Dinner

Remarks by Michael McConnell, Hoover Institution and Stanford Law School

Breakfast

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Separation of Powers and the Administrative State

Nicholas Bednar, University of Minnesota Law School, , “Managed by Exception: The Effect of Presidential Threat on the Civil Service”

Annie Benn, Colgate University, “Confrontation and Collaboration: How Congress Discusses Presidential Unilateral Power”

Rachel Potter, University of Virginia, “Lawyering Up the Administrative State”

George Krause, University of Georgia, "Administrative Favoritism: How Executive Branch Unity Contributes to Inequality in Unemployment Program Benefits" (with Ji Hyeun Hong, University of Georgia)

Chair/Discussant: Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College

Break

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Presidential Influence Over Bureaucratic Politics

Nathan Gibson, Elizabethtown College, “Consequences of Presidential Centralization"

Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan, “How Does Executive Action Work? Evidence from Military Subsidies to Police” (with Heonuk Ha, University of Michigan)

Larry Rothenberg, University of Rochester, “Presidential Particularism in the Face of Disaster: The Evolution of FEMA” (with Fred Gui, Louisiana State University; Junlong Aaron Zhou, Independent Researcher)

Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University and Hoover Institution, "Bureaucratic Capacity and Judicial Review” (with Nicholas Bednar, University of Minnesota Law School, and Kaleigh Ruiz, Vanderbilt University)

Chair/Discussants: Gisela Sin (Chair), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

George Krause, University of Georgia

Lunch Talk

Terry M. Moe, Hoover Institution and Stanford University, Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman Presidency (with William G. Howell, Johns Hopkins University) 

Interbranch Constraints

Lauren Mattioli, Boston University, “Appointments and Influence: Judicial Agenda Setting Across Three Presidential Administrations”

Meredith McLain, Tufts University, “Circumventing the Courts: Presidents’ Strategic Use of Bureaucratic Directives in Response to Judicial Sanctioning”

Mark Richardson, Georgetown University, "The Presidential Pendulum: Partisan Disagreement, Agenda Change, and Performance"

Brandon Rottinghaus, University of Houston, “But Who’s Keeping Score?  How Private Congressional Favors Move Presidential Priorities”

Chair/Discussant: Andrew Reeves, Washington University in St. Louis, The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, and Hoover Institution

Break

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Agenda Setting and Presidential Authority

Maraam Dwidar, Georgetown University, "Regulating in the Shadows: Special Interest Influence in Proposal Development" (with Mark D. Richardson, Georgetown University)

Christina Kinane, Yale University, "Oversight of Whom? Personnel Politics and Congressional Monitoring"

David Miller, American University, "Presidential Mobilization of Organized Interests”

Nicholas Napolio, University of California, Riverside, "Polarization and Principle in the US Congress: Legislator Enforcement of the Separation of Powers"

Chair/Discussants: Matt Beckmann (Chair), University of California, Irvine

Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University and Hoover Institution

Closing Remarks

Brandice Canes-Wrone, Hoover Institution and Stanford University

Andrew Reeves, Washington University in St. Louis, The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, and Hoover Institution

Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University and Hoover Institution